Alice

Vera takes a tumble trying to rescue a nest of baby blue jays from the diner sign before Mel gets to them with a broom.

By proving she's a better cook than Mel, Vera's acerbic landlady may have found the elusive way to his heart through his stomach.

After a winning first day at the track, Tommy bets he'll score in the betting business.

Alice gets a ride but hardly a rise out of a sexist ballonist whose hot air isn't confined to his balloon.

When Alice chips a tooth eating Mel's chili, he sends her to his dentist who takes one look at her X-rays and falls madly in love.

After 40 years, Mel learns that his mother lied when she told him his dog was a war hero.

Trophy winner Jolene throws Mel a curve when she won't pitch on his softball team.

No one can corral Vera after she discovers that a miniature horse is being mistreated by its trainer.

Working undercover as Santa Claus, Vera's new husband spots her kissing her former fiance.

After Alice quits in a huff, Mel replaces her with a very efficient and popular robot named Blanche.

After a whirlwind courtship, Vera walks down the aisle with her intended.

Who would have thought Vera would find love in a greasy spoon? Especially with a cop who just ticketed her for jaywalking.

Both Carrie and Alice are turned down as singers by a supper club owner who thinks they're too old for the job.

A popular singer stops for directions at the diner and ends up proposing to Mel.

Alice's dinner date with a high-school flame who's now blind turns into a delightful trip down sensory lane.

Everyone's up in the air over Jolene's maiden flight as a part-time stewardess.

A secret lover is sending Vera everything from poems to balloons.

Boss Hogg and Deputy Enos of ""The Dukes of Hazzard"" pay a surprise visit. Up to his usual low tricks, Boss makes an offer to lease the diner that Mel can't refuse but should.

After Mel decides to have the waitresses bonded, Vera owns up to a criminal past and takes it on the lam.

Afraid that he's lost the ""right stuff,"" Tommy quits the basketball team.

In role reversals, Mel becomes an employee by accepting an executive position with a catering firm, and the waitresses become owners by buying his diner.

Vera wishes her landlady the worst for evicting her pets then feels responsible when the old crank's apartment catches on fire.

Mel has had it up to his keister with the way things are going so he absconds to his apartment for a beer and pizza binge.

Mel is stripping his gears over his jazzy new Porsche he purchased for a measly $20.

Jolene can't bring herself to bruise the tender feelings of a bruiser who saved her life and now considers her his girl.

Alice fears that freshman Tommy is abusing his new freedom away from home by majoring in extracurricular activities.

The waitresses pit their musical knowledge against that of three plumbers on a TV quiz show.

Vera, whose cello playing can reduce a virtuoso to tears, is asked to play in a local string quartet.

Everyone takes with a grain of salt Alice's claim that she saw a UFO.

Jolene's brother pays a surprise visit, but the surprise is on him, he gets an icy reception from his sister.

Carrie is slow to come out of a depression after a quickie divorce.

Alice's meddlesome mother knocks the stuffing out of her daughter's Thanksgiving dinner.

Joel Grey walks out after producer Mel turns a revue about New York into a desert musical with tunes like ""Two Tootsies from Tucson"" and ""Ramona from Arizona.""

Joel Grey offers his services gratis as the leading man in a musical revue bankrolled by Mel and featuring Alice. Mel, however, has never heard of Grey and gives the role to his bookie.

There's gold in them there walls, or so Mel reckons after learning that the eccentric who built his diner left $20,000 stashed in another building.

Mel tries to outdo an old buddy who shows up boasting a track record of fast living and sporting a blonde on his arm as proof.

Debbie Reynolds plays an actress whose torrid memoirs convince Mel he's the one she remembers as the greatest kisser in her life.

Alice's actress friend from New York persuades Tommy that he has a brilliant future on Broadway.

Mel considers getting a nose job while undergoing surgery for a deviated septum.

To help Jolene's exhausted good buddy, the girls drive his rig to a mining town, blissfully unaware that they're hauling dynamite.

Alice is visited by a high-school chum who's still suffering from her teenage inferiority complex.

A book on building self-confidence inspires Vera to become ""the best little waitress in the world!"" Later, Mel leaves a newly confident Vera in charge of the diner.

Valentine's Day promises anything but hearts and flowers for the diner staff, who all quarrel with their dates.

Mel has a beef with his mother who wants to publish his secret chili recipe in her new cookbook.

After getting hooked on soap operas, Vera becomes a washout at work and later quits.

Mel gives Tommy advice on how to charm the ladies, which Tommy promptly applies to Mel's niece.

Alice blows the whistle on Tommy's basketball playing when his grades start to slip.

Alice's spirit inspires a biker to recruit her as his ""old lady.""

The ghost of a partner past gives Mel the dickens on Christmas Eve after Mel fired Alice, Jolene and Vera.

Mel becomes despondent when he realizes he has no heirs.

Against Mel's orders, Vera cashes a check for an old flame, who's nowhere to be found when it bounces.

Smooth operator Mel teaches his shy cousin, Wendell, how to score with Vera.

It's Alice's 40th birthday, and for the milestone she gets a millstone, a visit from her meddling mother.

On Halloween, Alice's latest heartthrob asks her to shepherd his four kids for the evening.

A towel boy from the Russian ballet takes refuge in Mel's storeroom.

Determined to leave her mark on the world, Vera sets out to break the tap dancing endurance record.

Mel borrows $10,000 against the diner to bet on a 90-to-1 nag.

When, Mel recounts the story of the little old lady who mugged him, the old lady becomes four thugs.

During a visit, Carrie plans to help out at the diner and cook but a fed up Mel kicks her out and she goes to work for a competitor.

Tommy is cutting classes to pursue a singing career and his first job is singing at a juice saloon.

Mel gets into a nose-to-beak yelling match with Vera's new pet parrot.

The waitresses cut up a huge fish they find in the refrigerator, unaware that singer Jerry Reed had left it there until he could have it stuffed.

Vera goes out on a limb to save a century old tree in front of the diner from being cut down for a road-widening project.

As the new manager of her apartment building, Alice has the unenviable task of locking out a delinquent fellow tenant, Belle.

Henry's convinced that his wife of 20 years is suddenly being nice because she's having an affair, so he tells her he's having one too, with Alice.

Mel's mother is singing the blues because her husband of six months has just left her.

The sparsely attended funeral of a buddy persuade Mel to become Mr. Nice Guy and ensure a decent turnout at his own burial.

Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.

Vera's Aunt Agatha, a freewheeling sexagenarian, makes a pit stop in Phoenix while motorcycling to Mexico. This prompts Vera to make a life altering decision, whether or not to ride off into the sunset with her aunt.

Mel may get his diner back if Belle can get Robert Goulet to perform for a Las Vegas casino owner but when it seems she can't get him, Alice steps in and impersonates him.

Robert Goulet makes an appearance when Vera wins a free trip to Las Vegas and Alice, Mel and Belle tag along to try their luck.

After his safe is stolen, Mel rents the services of two very efficient guard dogs.

An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.

The new waitress Belle is making big points with her old boss Mel, but she's scoring zero with Alice and Vera.

Mel hires Belle, a Mississippi belle who rings Mel's chimes as ""one of the best waitresses I've ever had."" However, Belle is now aiming for lusher pastures as a country-music writer.

A wealthy Houston restaurateur offers Flo a job she finds hard to refuse.

Mel plays host to a buddy whose wife has just left him.

Tommy has his heart set on taking his girl to a formal Valentine's dance and he needs a tuxedo.

Mel is delighted that his mother is planning to remarry until he meets his prospective stepfather.

Mel installs a time clock which prompts the waitresses to demand overtime for the Sunday cleanup they used to do for nothing.

Tommy stirs up trouble by candidly discussing his elders on a TV talk show.

Flo takes the wheel herself when she learns that her trucker beau has a female partner.

A yule tale (with a touch of O. Henry's ""The Gift of the Magi"") finds the girls pooling their meager resources to celebrate Christmas at the diner.

Vera asks Art Carney, a sixth cousin on her father's side, to endorse Mel's chili, so it can be marketed frozen as Chili con Carney.

Mel, his girlfriend and the waitresses spend the weekend packed like sardines in a fishing cabin.

Things get hotter than Mel's chili when Dinah Shore invites Mel to prepare his recipe on her show and bring along one, but only one waitress.

The return of Mel's domineering mother does nothing for his ego because after his back goes out, the customers flock in, for his mother's cooking.

Vera's boyfriend objects to her sketching nude males in art class.

Mel is convinced that his chief competitor is romancing Flo just to get the recipe for Mel's Texas-style chili, rated by a food critic as being ""the best in the West.""

Just one dance lesson and Tommy falls head over heels for his instructor, Vera.

Mel gives a big engagement ring to his girlfriend Marie, but the sparkle quickly fades when he insists that she sign a premarital agreement.

Alice's sour reaction to Tommy's matchmaking efforts threatens Mel's new promotional gimmick which is free meals to customers if his waitresses don't smile.

Telly Savalas gives star-struck Vera a thrill when he stops by the diner while she's working there alone. When no one believes her story, she quits in a huff.

Mel tells the girls to ""stow it"" for the last time, then sells the diner to a humorless martinet.

Alice's long-awaited break, a chance to fill a vacancy in a traveling trio will break her heart if she has to hit the road without Tommy.

Vera is heartbroken after her boyfriend tells her that he's marrying someone else.

Mel's pushy mother winters nearby, and Mel's not sure that he'll make it to spring.

Alice is angry when Tommy conducts his first romance on her telephone.

Flo and Mel's brother (Carmine Caridi) decide to take a chance at marriage — even though it's the fourth time for each.

Alice's date gets two extra tickets to a celebrity ball and everyone wants to go.

Flo finds herself without a date on New Year's Eve.

Tommy wants Alice to stop dating his school principal (Gary Collins).

Despite his skepticism, Mel tries to find a way to exploit Vera's knack for foretelling the future.

Mel is unhappy because Alice's second job — delivering singing telegrams — makes her late for the diner.

Mel unwittingly buys stolen turkeys for a Thanksgiving dinner he is having for orphans.

Mel mistakes Alice's intentions when she invites him for a family dinner.

While Mel is sleeping in the storeroom, Alice is robbed at gunpoint at the counter.

Flo's night life interferes with her night-school studies.

The diner personnel try to kick their bad habits.

Vera meets a new boy friend at the movies, but refuses to bring him to the diner.

Mel identifies a holdup man who has a record for assaulting a previous witness.

Mel sells the girls a car that won't start.

Alice takes Mel up on his boast that he can raise her son better than she.

Mel wants to know who's stealing food and making long-distance phone calls from the diner.

To Mel's disappointment, the girls take him at his word when he says he doesn't want a 50th-birthday party.

Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz)and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige).

Flo is courted by a rich Arab (Richard Libertini) who, unknown to her, already has three wives.

An investigative reporter seeks refuge in Mel's Diner.

Flo fixes up Alice with her bronco-busting brother (Burton Gilliam).

A pharmacist protesting food additives threatens to take his life in Mel's Diner.

Hostility rages at Mel's after the workers decide to vent their petty grievances.

An amorous high-school basketball star starts putting the moves on Alice.

Flo's vanity keeps her from getting the eyeglasses she obviously needs.

When George Burns stops into Mel's, Vera believes that he's actually the Deity he played in the movie Oh, God!

Alice and friends are snowbound en route to her cousin's for Christmas.

Endearments replace the insults in Flo and Mel's relationship after they attend an out-of-town game together.

Mel can't be moved after his bad back flares up at Alice's place.

Alice suspects that a diner regular is really an incognito mobster.

The girls accept an invitation to visit a new singles bar.

Alice's moonlighting job as a nightclub singer is taking its toll on her waitress job.

Mel incites his waitresses to quit by giving a new waiter better wages than theirs.

A Native American who claims Mel's diner is built on sacred ground refuses to leave.

A suspected flasher and Flo's third ex-husband (Rod McCary) stir things up at Mel's Diner.

Flo's trailer is stolen, and Alice has the heart to let her stay at her house for a spell. The spell is broken when Alice finds out that Flo is an all-out slob and have unwelcomed visitors (Flo's latest boyfriend, not roaches).

Alice might be in trouble with Uncle Sam when she learns that her recently decease husband never paid his back taxes.

A fake Gypsy is caught stealing the silverware by Alice, and she puts a curse on the gang.

A robbery heist gets messed up when the cash register is stuck. The robber thinks he is a failure, but he gets a chance to redeem himself when he helps a lady deliver a baby in the diner.

Mel leaves Alice and Flo his car when he goes on a trip, but Flo gets it totalled in an accident that is spread out over several blocks. Will they fix it in time before Mel gets back? Nope, Mel comes home early and finds out about his car from an angry Hispanic neighbor!

Mel falls in love with a young nature hiker from New Jersey.

Vera's boyfriend might very well be a married man.

Alice does all that she can to stop Rose from becoming a permanent Phoeniz resident.

Rose Hyatt comes to visit Alice and Tommy, much to Alice's chagrin. And now she's talking about staying there....

Alice is thrilled that Mel is taking Tommy camping, until she finds out that it involves hunting as well. Alice refuses to let Tommy go, but he runs away to go camping anyway. It isn't until he shoots an animal that he realizes that his mother was right all along.

Alice is proposed marriage from an old boyfriend from the old neighborhood.

Alice and Flo try to keep Vera from O'Ding on sleeping pills.

When Alice helps Flo get a man, the Man tries to help himself to Alice.

Alice feels that Tommy is learning about sex too early when she finds a picture of a naked woman in Tommy's wallet.

A famous food critic dies in Mel's Diner, which freaks out everyone.

A sleepless night of obscene phone calls prompts Alice into considering packing a piece.

Alice is mistakenly picked up by the five-0 for prostitution when she is performing in a nightclub.

Alice meets her late husband's beneficiary.

Alice falls for an ex-football player, who is now an actor.

Alice gets her hopes up to be a big star when a talent agent comes to town.